The Very World of Milton Jones is a British radio series starring "Britain's funniest Milton", Milton Jones. Each show begins with Milton's life flashing before his eyes due to a near-death experience; his guardian angel comes down to visit him, and together they discuss his life. At the end, the angel leaves him, but by some staggering coincidence - usually relating to something mentioned earlier in the episode - he survives.

Milton Jones has done some other series as well. Another Case of Milton Jones featured Milton's life in various jobs, including chessmaster (featuring the Russian university town of Untergrad), architect and mayor of London ("I discovered there was a secret network of tunnels under the city. Why hadn't I been told of this earlier?"). The House Of Milton Jones was a slightly more conventional Dom Com. And on occasion he pops up as a comic elsewhere.

Not to be confused with the other Milton.Tropes used in these programs:

Artistic License- Alternative Medicine: One episode involves Prince Charles plotting to cure all the world's illnesses by putting a drop of an extremely potent medicine into the ocean, thus (by the laws of homeopathy) making it infinitely diluted and infinitely powerful. In fact, 'real' homeopathic solutions are diluted by considerably more than 'one drop in all the water on Earth'.

Expository Theme Tune: The House Of Milton Jones has one, which describes all the characters and also clarifies that it's not actually his house, it's Auntie Dilys's.

Forgotten Birthday: In Another Case Of Milton Jones, Milton makes a throwaway mention of the entire nation of Britain pretending to forget the Queen's official birthday. Despite this, a later episode shows that they forget his birthday every year.

Milton(to a New Zealander): Yeah, you go away, with your weird accent and your land full of sheep. Not like us Welsh.

I Coulda Been a Contender: in Another Case, it always turns out that Anton was a high-flyer in whatever field Milton was involved in, but had to abandon his dreams due to some unfortunate mishap (the anecdotes where he explains this mishaps are always introduced by a piece of melancholy harp music, and the audience are beginning to catch on to this)

Imagine Spot: one of the purposes of the guardian angel is to show Milton what life would be like under some strange circumstance. For example, one episode has Milton pondering what it would be like to be a Jehovah's Witness in the Middle Ages.

It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY: Sir Alan 'Mill-AY' Millet in the "Explorer" episode of Another Case. Milton mocks this for the rest of the episode: "...and then the Bay of Biscay - sorry, Biscuit..."

Pocket Protector: The "Mexico" episode ends with Milton surviving death by firing squid when the bullets bounce off his Tesco Clubcard.

Product Placement: parodied. Milton's father (or, at least, one of them) was a donkey ride operator on Blackpool Beach.

Milton: I think I was closest to Cillit Bang Stain Remover Removes Stubborn Stains. I used to call him Cillit Bang Stain Remover for short, and every day we marched up and down the sands with "Cillit Bang" printed proudly on his side.

Not to mention the Bank of England's gold reserves being in the shape of a giant pound coin, to set up the pound dropping through the floor and someone being hit by the falling pound.

Running Gag: Not across the episodes, but within them. For example, the Mexico episode involves many instances of Milton failing to emulate the famous Zorro symbol ("That's not a Z, that's an N." "Yes. For I...am Norro! As the path to freedom is not wide; it is Norro!").

Waxing Lyrical: A common joke, as well as using snippets from songs as dialogue. For example, one episode has Milton interviewing Sam Cooke for a job as a teacher; all of Cooke's responses are lines from "Wonderful World (Don't Know Much About History)".

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